LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CAPSIZE of DUTCH LIFEBOAT
WITH GREAT REGRET we have to report that the Royal North and South Holland Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Christiaen Huygens of Den Helder capsized on March 26, 1975. Two of her crew of three lost their lives.
At about 2145...
Category: Articles
Contributions from Shipping on the Tyne. The Value of the Personal Appeal
As showing what can be done by systematic and personal appeals on behalf of the Life-boat Service to the captains and crews of ships, we should like to call attention to the most successful work at Tynemouth of Mr.
Godfrey...
Category: Donations
The Lord Brownlow
The Institution has been so unfortunate as to lose two of its members by death within a few days of one another, Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus.
Lord Brownlow, who became a member of the Committee in 1924, died on 19th...
Category: Obituaries
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
We take pride in the fact that we supply COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.
FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses Henry Browne & Son Limited Compass...
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Notus
Norwegian yacht aground IN THE EARLY HOURS of Saturday, June 20, 1987, Ramsgate's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann launched in response to a message from Dover Coastguard MRCC that red flares and a MAYDAY signal had been...
Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
A Trawler (6)
JULY 21ST. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. in a dense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr....
Maria
The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.
A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the...
A Dinghy
Walmer, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 15th of October, 1955, the Ramsgaie life-boat put off to search for a ten-feet dinghy which had been missing from Broadstairs, with one man on board, since four o'clock. She searched widely in...
Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat B539
At/antic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat B539 is stationed at Brighton. Note that her helmsman is steering with his left hand, keeping his right on the throttles.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs